Robert Hunt

Robert Hunt (1568-1608) was a vicar (representative) of the Anglician Church and the chaplain of John Smith's 1607 expedition to Jamestown.

Biography
Robert Hunt was the vicar of Reculver in the city of Kent, England, until 1602, when he had to leave because his wife Elizabeth Edwards saw too much of one John Taylor in an affair. In 1606 he left his new parish at Old Heathfield, Sussex, after he had an affair with his servant Thomasina Plumber. However, luck was on his side in 1607 when he was recruited by Edward Maria Wingfield and John Smith as the chaplain for an expedition to the New World of the Americas, far from his problems in England. In April 1607, he gave the first Protestant sermon in the Americas since the 1579 planting of a cross at California by Francis Drake. He died in 1608 of natural causes.